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    Do reservation systems identify priority seats?

    Is it possible that holders of a Senior or Disabled Railcard will be directed to priority seats?
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    Spilt Ticketing Anomaly

    Makes sense. The "obvious" route from High Wycombe to WCML destinations and vice versa is via the Moor Street to New Street walk. The trick of changing at Banbury or Leamington to or from a Cross Country service has the merit of avoiding this when the timings work.
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    Spilt Ticketing Anomaly

    Try this https://book.splitticketing.com/results?FromStation=7030540&ToStation=7012430&Adults=1&OutboundDate=28%2F06%2F2024&OutboundTime=13%3A00&InboundDate=30%2F06%2F2024&InboundTime=18%3A00&Railcard=SRN&searchBy=0&firstClass=false&flexible=false&selectionMethod=Grid There's a choice of...
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    Spilt Ticketing Anomaly

    Should it matter? They all go via Birmingham and I don't have an exact time for the return anyway. Crewe to Birmingham is almost a metro frequency albeit on several routes. Hence the attraction of a split just at Birmingham rather than somewhere between Birmingham and Crew as well. The...
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    Spilt Ticketing Anomaly

    https://book.splitticketing.com/results?FromStation=&ToStation=&Adults=1&OutboundDate=17%2F04%2F2024&OutboundTime=20%3A45&InboundDate=17%2F04%2F2024&InboundTime=23%3A00&searchBy=0&firstClass=false&flexible=false&selectionMethod=Grid
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    Spilt Ticketing Anomaly

    I have been checking fares and times for a potential journey from High Wycombe to Crewe and return, leaving midday on Friday 28th June and returning on the evening of Sunday 30th June. Using the splitticketing.com site and specifying a Senior railcard with flexible fares it offers as a possible...
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    How could the Elizabeth line expand?

    110 mph on a 387 along the Mains to and from Slough is a very much faster journey than the all stations 345.
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    When the slow line becomes the fast line

    Back in the days when all the services were operated by FGW, there was a curious late evening swop at Slough. One of the stopping trains would shuffle across to the up main and wait for ten minutes or perhaps longer to be overtaken by a stopping semi-fast. In the meantime HSTs would trundle...
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    Stations with roads inside

    Part of Hull Paragon has been converted to a bus station.
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    'Under a 10 minute walk between stations' but not an OSI?

    It was already popular with workers near to Central Line stations fifty years ago. Without ever measuring it, I had the perception that the walk between platforms from Bakerloo to Central or vice versa at Oxford Circus was just as long as Paddington to Lancaster Gate. Also the run from Oxford...
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    BT Copper to Fibre

    I thimk that's what they intend. The existing master socket would be replaced by a gadget with a socket to plug in an existing phone or phones. The gadget would be a router of some sort. If there is already a router plugged into the master socket through a filter, presumably the wiring can be...
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    Potential Grand Union stock?

    When first built, the Bishops Road platforms were regarded almost as a separate station and all four platforms 13,14,15 and 16 had four rail electrification and connections through to the Circle line. In a 1960s remodelling, the Hammersmith & City line trains were moved to platforms 15 and 16...
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    Trivia: Stations more than one change from London

    In peak hours the Maidenhead to Marlow hourly shuttle splits to become a half hourly service. So Maidenhead to Bourne End, walk round to the other platform, then Bourne End to Marlow. Time of day and connections permitting, less than an hour to or from Paddington. There are no longer any through...
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    "Valid only via London" & break of journey at destination & without resumption?

    I think there was a similar query about whether a High Wycombe to Manchester via London return was valid on a Chiltern train from Birmingham stopping at High Wycombe. It may even have been whether it was valid on a Cross Country service via Birmingham.
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    GWR silly Advance policy to Oxford

    It looks as if it's still four per hour from Maidenhead, so it's possible to take the half hourly 387 and change at Maidenhead or Slough.

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